The Way
….
The footsteps you followed
end abruptly.
A friend once told you
it’s a jungle out there
and now you have no clear path.
Sometimes a vision is in your head;
sometimes it’s in your feet.
Close your eyes and listen.
Your feet will know
where to make your way.
This poem is from the book True Blue by Susan Scheid (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/true-blue-by-susan-scheid/
SUSAN SCHEID is the author of After Enchantment, which was inspired by beloved fairy tale characters. Scheid’s poetry has appeared in The Southern Quill, Blue Heron Review, The Mid-Atlantic Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Burgeon Press, Gargoyle, About Place Journal, Truth to Power, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Little Patuxent Review, The Sligo Journal, Silver Birch Press, Tidal Basin Review, and other journals. Her work is also included in the anthologies, Poetic Art, Enchantment of the Ordinary, and Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic. Scheid served for a number of years as the Board co-chair for Split This Rock. She lives in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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